"It all started with a seemingly harmless cough, which almost everyone had in february", remembers kathrin R.. But then their little daughter sophie's cough turned into a heart alarm. The life of the toddler, who had never been ill before, was suddenly hanging by a thread. Doctors from erlangen saved the girl's life with a seemingly harmless cold, as the university of erlangen-nurnberg reported on wednesday.
When kathrin R. Looking back over the past few months, she is still amazed: her daughter sophie, who is now two years old and has never really been sick, has just escaped death once again this spring. "But then it all happened very quickly. At the beginning of march sophie was admitted to hospital as an emergency case. Three days later, an artificial heart had to keep her alive", the mother is quoted in the press release.
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